In the EoHT wiki this Cover page discusses the possibility of printing of the EoHT as a 5-volume set (~2,500-pages). The first draft cover, for the possible hardcover casewrap printing of the encyclopedia, in circa 2010 or later, is pictured adjacent. The first draft cover was made on 04 April 2008 by Libb Thims. The article pages are being written one at a time online via the wiki. Please post comments or suggestions below the photo or in the bottom threads.

Need to print the encyclopedia
The general drive or force to print the encyclopedia results according to the following logic:

(a) Their exists the general urge or intuition to have a backup stored copy of the EoHT wiki website (in case of system crash).
(b) The Wetpaint site allows site creators to "back up" the contents of this wiki by exporting the pages as HTML into a zip file (to down load to a computer), but it doesn't back up the images.
(c) With this in mind, a stored file of HTML code, seems good but messy if it were to be reloaded somewhere?
(d) Hence, the next logical step would be for S.C.Thims to copy the site, page-by-page, onto a word document, for safety's sake.
(e) If this were to be done, it then wouldn't be that much more work to edit the file, make a PDF file of it, and then print it with an ISBN for Amazon and global distribution (or at least so to have one hardcover copy on S.C.'sThims' bookshelf).
(f) Beyond this, knowing the volatility of webpages, so the knowledge will be preserved for future generations, i.e. the books will be in circulation for others to read, study, and build on, in 100-years or more from now.

Publisher
The publisher at present will be LuLu, as they are quick, affordable, simple to use, and have excellent quality text-book style hardcovers (no dust-jacket). A second choice might be to fish forfind a seasoned science encyclopedia publisher, e.g. McGraw-Hill.

Costs
The costs for the the ISBN fees, printing costs, advertising, etc., will be paid by Libb Thims.

Price
As to retail price, most scientific encyclopedias cost between $100 to the $12,000 dollar range.range (examples below). To note, Therethere seems to be only two other "thermodynamics" type encyclopedias published (or available):

● The 2006, 604-page, 2-volume Encyclopaedia of Thermodynamics (volume 1: thermodynamics systems, volume 2: thermodynamic laws), shown adjacent, at a cost of $241 dollars (or $0.40/page).

● The 2002, 620-page Encyclopedia of Thermodynamics and Electrified Interfaces, shown adjacent, is $505 dollars (or $0.81/page).

● The 2004, 5,373-page, 6-volume Encyclopedia of Energy, shown below, is $2,395 dollars (or $0.45/page).

A few other comparative examples are below:

● A low-cost example is the 1,744-page, 2-volume, 2004 Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry at $540 dollars (or $0.32/page).
● A mid-sized example is the 3,000-page, 4-volume, 2004 Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry at $1,385 (or $0.46/page).
● A high-end example is the 14,344-page, 15-volume, 2001 Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry at $11,860 dollars (or $0.82/page).

Page length
Possibly the EoHT will fall in 1,000-3,000 page range (being that the wiki is near to passing the 1,000 mark). An idea would be to print the first edition after the biographies, theories, terms, etc., of the top-200 human thermodynamic pioneers are found and written or after the first 1,000 wiki pages are written?

Proceeds
As to potential proceeds, the basic goal will be to (a) pay for the cost of the EoHT wiki, (b) buy more human thermodynamics books, to further the growth of the EoHT wiki, and (c) pay for printing costs. A possibly residual idea, assuming funds are available, would be to donate a number of copies to libraries and schools.